Knitted collar for garments.



G. 0. SANBORN. KNITTED DOLLAR FOB GARMENTS.

APPLIOATION FILED 1120.29, 1910.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

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KNITTED COLLAR FOR GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

Application filed December 29, 1910. Serial No. 599,989.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon O. SANBORN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of \Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Collars for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garments for personal wear; and particularly to coatsweaters formed of knitted fabric.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved method of forming the collars of knitted garments which will lend additional service and adaptability to the garment by the provision of means whereby the same may be worn in various styles according to the weather or taste of the wearer.

The invention consists in the novel arrangement, adaptation and combination of devices in the construction of an improved collar for knitted garments, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a coat provided with a collar formed in accordance with my invention, shown in open condition. Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are like views with the collar buttoned to illustrate various styles and effects afforded.

In the said drawings, the reference numeral 10 represents knitted ribs of the body of a coat sweater.

11 are a plurality of ribs which border the two'sides of the front opening of the coat and in which buttons 14 and button-holes 13 are respectively provided.

16 is a collar stitched at the seam 17 to the upper portion of the garment and extending to the respective edges of the border ribs 11 upon each side of the coat opening. In proximity of the collar said border ribs are offset from the ribs 10 and interposed therebetween are a plurality of widening wales 15 formed in the fabric by adding extra needles to the machine during the process of knitting and in effect causing said border ribs to extend in lateral directions at each side of the coat opening for a distance toward the opposite side of said opening and with the collar which is coextensive therewith affording normally overlapping lapels 18, 18.

19 and 20 are buttons preferably secured to the garment substantially on the line of breasted effect over the chest.

said seam 17 thereby giving a relatively firm suspension for the button securing stitches.

The button 19 is desirably positioned near the apex of the lapel 18 while the button 20 may be located in proximity of the turn of the collar upon the shoulder of the garment, as at 21. The buttonholes 22 and 23 may likewise be formed in the seam 17 and positioned respectively in proximity of the apex of the lapel 18 and at the turn 21 of the collar oppositely symmetrical with said buttons 19 and 20. Said buttons 19 and 20 are thus positioned substantially equidistant upon either side of a medial line if projected upwardly through the buttons 14 of the lower portion of the coat; and the buttonholes 22, 23 are likewise normally positioned in the same relative positions upon either side of a line extended upwardly through buttonholes 15.

The manner of using the coat and the application thereof to the various purposes of the wearer or the condition of the weather may be described as follows: The garment may be utilized as a coat for relatively warm weather by simply opening the lapels to either side as shown in Fig. 2, disclosing the throat or shirt collar and necktie of the wearer.

Fig. 3 shows the button 19 and the buttonhole 22 in engagement, affording a loose fit of the collar about the neck and a single The button 20 and buttonhole 23 in this form are idle. A further method of wearing the garment, though not illustrated, is afforded by turning the upper edge of the collar outwardly somewhat in the manner shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 1 represents the garment with the lapels upon either side of the coat opening overlapping at the throat with the button 20 and buttonhole 22 in engagement and the button 19 similarly secured in the buttonhole 28. Such manner of utilizing the devices disclosed adapts the same to wear in cold weather by its snug engagement about the neck and the double-breasted condition thereof over the throat. Also both lapels are secured in fixed condition and will therefore lay smoothly and comfortably about the neck of the wearer however violent may be the exercise undergone. As may be noted in the view, said buttons 19 and 20 when secured in the respective buttonhole 23 and 22 cause said lapels to assume symmetrical posit-ions relative to each other, the coat and the person of the wearer.

Fig. 5 illustrates a further application of the collar when buttoned as described for Fig. 4. The collar is rolled outwardly in the style usually obtaining in sweaters used in the navy and has heretofore never been successfully accomplished in any coat sweater known to me. This style is especially comfortable in moderately cold weather and present a pleasing and peculiarly neat appearance.

The forms shown in the two latter views are particularly novel and advantageous in coat sweaters and are obtainable chiefly through the agencies of the devices and structure described.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

In a coat sweater, a knitted ribbed bodyportion, border ribs of the same length and on the respective edges of the opening of the body-portion, widening wales interposed between the ribs of the body-portion and said border ribs, a collar coeXtensively joined by a seam with the top of said body-portion and having the ends thereof secured to the upper ends of the border ribs, each end of said collar in connection with the upper portion of a border rib forming a lapel ex tending laterally toward and adapted to overlap the opposite portion of the body, buttons on one side of the body and secured to the fabric at said seam, one of said buttons being positioned at the upper end of 7 said border ribs and the other of said but tons spaced from the first-named b-uttontoward the proximate shoulder of the coat, button holes formed in said seam upon the opposite side of the body, one of said button holes positioned at the top of the other border rib, and the other of said button holes spaced from the first-mentioned button hole toward the proximate shoulder of the coat, a button connected to one of the border ribs and the other of said border ribs provided with a button hole adapted to engage the last-mentioned button.

GEORGE O. SANBORN. Vitnesses H. BARNES, E. PETERSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

